Coronavirus and the management of epidemics and the wider impact on society
We have brought together a number of research resources related to the coronavirus group of viruses, and epidemics more broadly.
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Whilst these materials do not only relate to the current clinical challenges of COVID-19, they may provide relevant context to how the world reacted to other previous coronavirus outbreaks, notably Severe Acute Respitory Syndrome (SARS).
In addition, this research explores the wider impact on society and includes research on healthcare, education, homeworking, supply chain management (SCM) and tourism.
COVID-19 Expert Briefings
Our Expert Briefings are impartial and actionable responses to the current coronavirus outbreak, delivered by Oxford Analytica. Read our selection of relevant briefings or visit Emerald Insight for the latest daily briefings.
- Health preparedness and trade affect COVID-19 exposure
- Financial market buoyancy is fragile amid rising risks
- Africa will struggle to combat COVID-19
- COVID-19 will hit US GDP but recovery may be V-shaped
- COVID-19 and oil shocks raise Gulf recession risks
- Tech may curb virus profiteering, not disinformation
- Maghreb lockdown rush may reflect low health capacity
- India faces huge COVID-19 burden absent more testing
- Virus testing will be key to lockdown exit strategies
- COVID-19 threatens to fragment the EU further
- Medical advances may shorten COVID-19 duration
- The WHO’s COVID-19 pandemic declaration may be late
- Misinformation will undermine coronavirus responses
- COVID-19 may hurt Singapore most in South-east Asia
- Coronavirus shows how China has changed since SARS
Remote working
- Virtual offices: understanding and managing what you cannot see
- Constructing corporate commitment amongst remote employees: A disposition and predisposition approach
- How absence can make the heart grow fonder: Dispersed teams and the positive effect of perceived proximity
- Critical success factors in developing teleworking programs
- Teleworking: an assessment of socio‐psychological factors
- Home‐based teleworking and the employment relationship: Managerial challenges and dilemmas
- An exploration of the psychological factors affecting remote e‐worker's job effectiveness, well‐being and work‐life balance
- Organizational Control in the Context of Remote Work Arrangements: A Conceptual Framework
- Virtual Team Success with the Power of Technology Advancements
- Finding the Optimal Mix between Telework and Office Hours to Enhance Employee Productivity: A Study into the Relationship between Telework Intensity and Individual Productivity, with Mediation of Intrinsic Motivation and Moderation of Office Hours
- From anxiety to assurance: concerns and outcomes of telework
- Homeworkers' usage of mobile phones; social isolation in the home‐workplace
Media and information flow during an epidemic
- An epidemic model for correlated information diffusion in crowd intelligence networks
- Media constructions of fear in the outbreak of an epidemic disease
- Swine flu in Buenos Aires: beyond the principle of resilience
- Old Wine in New Bottles? Use of Twitter by Established UK News Media during the 2014–15 West African Ebola Outbreak Abstract Note
- Monitoring the issue arenas of the swine‐flu discussion
- Social Media Communication During Disease Outbreaks: Findings and Recommendations
- Topical evolution patterns and temporal trends of microblogs on public health emergencies: An exploratory study of Ebola on Twitter and Weibo
- Infectious diseases: Ethics, experts and policy in AIDS, vCJD, Ebola virus, West Nile virus
- Estimating the crisis information coverage model in the internet communities
- Media and social amplification of risk: BSE and H1N1 cases in South Korea
- Perceived risk mediates the impact of mood on the effectiveness of health PSAs
Healthcare
- The concept of emerging infectious disease revisited
- The Global call for action on infection prevention and control
- Bridging complexity theory and resilience to develop surge capacity in health systems
- Decision support in a fieldable laboratory management during an epidemic outbreak of disease
- Optimal vaccination policy and cost analysis for epidemic control in resource-limited settings
- Information sources and adoption of vaccine during pandemics
Human logistics
- The social politics of pandemic influenzas: the question of (permeable) international, inter-species, and interpersonal boundaries
- Analyzing the response to epidemics: concept of evidence-based Haddon matrix
- Intention to travel internationally and domestically in unstable world
- A framework for geographical surveillance of disease in China
- The future role of logistics for global wealth – scenarios and discontinuities until 2025
Disaster prevention and management
- Understanding framings and perceptions of spillover: Preventing future outbreaks of bat-borne zoonoses
- The "wicked problems" of governing UK health security disaster prevention
- Review of research studies on population specific epidemic disasters
- From Sustainability to Resilience: Why Locality Matters
- Effective Crisis and Emergency Responses in the Multinational Corporation
- China: Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
Impact on the tourism/hospitality industry
- Tourism in a world with pandemics: local-global responsibility and action
- Small tourist firms in rural areas: agility, vulnerability and survival in the face of crisis
- SARS: lessons in strategic planning for hoteliers and destination marketers
- The impact of SARS on Hong Kong’s tourism industry
- National disaster management in the ASEAN-5: an analysis of tourism resilience
- Building leadership capacity: a framework for disruptive events in tourism
- Small tourist firms in rural areas: agility, vulnerability and survival in the face of crisis
Impact on business
- The impact of Zika on local businesses
- Leading and managing people effectively in the face of global public health emergencies: lessons from Ebola and Zika virus outbreaks
- The new normal: lessons learned from SARS for corporations operating in emerging markets
- Organizations and crisis situations: Factors that facilitate learning and change
- “It will happen again”: What SARS taught businesses about crisis management
- Global health and international business: new frontiers of international business research
- The new normal: lessons learned from SARS for corporations operating in emerging markets
Education under isolation
- Navigating the Future of Learning: The Role of Smart Technologies
- The Disruptive Power of Online Education: Challenges, Opportunities, Responses
- Mobile Tools for Literacy Learning across the Curriculum in Primary Schools
- Online learning during post-earthquake school closures
- Investigating different options in course delivery- traditional vs online: is there another option?
- A minimalist design for distance learning
Social impact and responding to a pandemic
- Capitalism is making us sick: poverty, illness and the SARS crisis in Toronto
- Dealing with mass death in disasters and pandemics
- Why pandemic response is unique: powerful experts and hands-off political leaders
- Perceived risk mediates the impact of mood on the effectiveness of health PSAs
- Epidemiological situations and control strategies of vector-borne diseases in Nepal during 1998–2016
- Ebola Virus Disease: A Lesson in Science and Ethics
Isolation
Enabling technologies
- A Dutch and American Commentary on IT in Health Care: Roundtable Discussions on IT and Innovations in Health Care
- Building Joint Value: Ecosystem Support for Global Health Innovations
- Food traceability technologies and foodborne outbreak occurrences
- Repurposing Geographic Information Systems for Routine Hospital Infection Control
- Network based model of social media big data predicts contagious disease diffusion
Teaching resources: case studies
- Million Dollar Gamblers: a case of embezzlement in South Whitehall Township
- Burned-N-Turned: feeding the fracking boom
- F*ck Off Google”: protest against Google Campus Berlin
- A case of the blues: depression screenings in a community pharmacy
- Sorry, no carnitas: balancing “Food with Integrity” and growth at Chipotle
- Yuppichef : From clicks to bricks – an Omnichannel approach for a South African business
- Uber SA: Disruption of the local taxi industry?
- Hope Home: early childhood education for social change
- Accident at Vidyalaya School – an ethical dilemma
- Building the BrightRock brand through change
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